No WIH lecture this week

Good afternoon, all.
I wanted to let you know, as there are some of you who devoutly follow the Western Intellectual History podcast, that there will not be a podcast this week.  I put it off until today when, of course, I am horribly ill.
 Come back Monday, as I will be reviewing a fascinating new book […]

Why Church History Matters to the Secular Setting

One of the most fascinating aspects of the professional history field, to me, is the wall of separation that is often created between religious and secular history.  Especially when you talk about intellectual history and the history of ideas, you can’t just write off religious belief or theological principles outright, yet many historians (even intellectual historians) […]

Civil War Reenactors and Race: A Review of Confederates in the Attic

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(This is a long-overdue book review for me.  I trust that, even if you’ve read and forgotten Confederates in the Attic, you’ll bear with me as I dredge up old bones!)
Tony Horowitz, in the 1999 book, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, chronicles time spent amount modern-day history enthusiasts with […]

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